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This weblog was the original abode of Abhijit Nadgouda, now it is moved to iface thoughts. He will appreciate it if you can carry discussions, if you want to, over there. He uses this blog to write specifically about Wordpress or Wordpress.com.

If you are reading any specific post dated on or before 17th August 2006, just replace the domain name with the new one, i.e., replace https://iface.wordpress.com with http://ifacethoughts.net and you will arrive on the same post in the new blog.

Subscriptions Like Mine

I have written earlier how I encrich my blogshelf by reading what others read. I have discovered some fantastic sites and blogs through this. I agree with Phil that the best way to do this is by reading their the blogrolls. However, this will work only if you know whom to visit. I would like to know what “others” like me read. I think SYO can help a lot here. That is why, in my opinion, the best feature of SYO is “Subscriptions like Mine”. I can read what others read using this. I would like to extend this by providing a feed for the OPMLs of subscriptions like mine. Then I will be intimated as soon as someone starts reading some new site/blog. It would be great to also include a search, so that someone could search for a feed by its name or its taxonomy.

Manage OPML

One other feature I would like to see is to manage an atomic OPML entry, instead of handling the OPML files. The basic reason being that usually the OPML is generated by the feed aggregators. However, there are some sites which do not offer feed subscription and they cannot be entered here. I would like to see SYO address OPML rather than just that of feeds (yes, there are still some sites which don’t offer feeds for subscription). I like Matt‘s suggestion of OPML normalization service.

I like feeds. I am not degrading or discounting the website design, but feeds do save time. I, as a reader, gather articles using feeds, and visit the sites regularly. I am sure others have given their opinions and suggestions, I will look forward to an evolving SYO.